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    Alabama splits Publics and Privates Football State Championships

    Wait, now I'm confused. All publics are whiners because there are some advocating for split playoffs (it is in their nature after all), but now you are in favor of split playoffs? While I have you, what is the nature of all private school people? Or it's not fair to generalize private school...
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    The IHSA "We Screwed Up Please Cover For Us" Proposal Has Passed

    Is the postseason only for teams that are going to make a deep run? Because then there are a lot of teams that make the playoffs that should be barred from making the playoffs I'm not sure I am reading this post correctly. I can't tell where the sarcasm ends, so if I am getting the wrong...
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    The IHSA "We Screwed Up Please Cover For Us" Proposal Has Passed

    It's worse for the coaches and kids who already have vacations planned because they assumed this would be deadweek from years ago. Now they are left scrambling or in some cases, will have to sit out the first game or miss a once in a lifetime vacation. I don't understand how it's a 10 year...
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    Trae Taylor to Nebraska… for high school

    I'm wondering how much access he can have to the university as a recruit? This was new information to me. I thought there were very strict policies on how universities talk to their recruits, how often, when, etc. If recruits can move to college towns a year early and have unlimited access to...
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    GOAT

    Justin Jackson is the best HS player I've ever seen, so I figured he should be mentioned. He finished 7th all time in rush yards, tenth in touchdowns, played defense, and single handedly beat an awesome Loyola defense for probably the best individual performance I've seen in person.
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    The Playoff Expansion Bylaw PASSED!

    Well I guess that part of you can still hold it as special because not everyone gets to make to the playoffs. Or did you not know that? Are you simply trying to make a point by not acknowledging this? I didn't bring up the feelings of the 0-9, 1-8, and some 2-7 teams. I didn't call them...
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    The Playoff Expansion Bylaw PASSED!

    No, once again the season did not get longer. 2025 football season, practice begins on August 11th, first game August 29th, state championship November 29th. 2026 football season, practice begins on August 10th, first game August 22nd, state championship November 28th The dead week was moved...
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    The Playoff Expansion Bylaw PASSED!

    Quags22, "belong in" is synonymous with deserve in this context. To think someone belongs would imply others do not belong. If there is a dichotomy of belonging and not belonging then the teams that people think do belong would by default deserve to belong over teams that do not belong. Here...
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    The Playoff Expansion Bylaw PASSED!

    Cherry picking Halloween is an unfair argument. There were dozens of sellouts this postseason. Games with lines around the block to get in the stadium. The fact that the first game was on Halloween and communities have different obligations on that night again is not a genuine argument. I...
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    The Playoff Expansion Bylaw PASSED!

    "deserve to get in" is a completely arbitrary decision. I can think of dozens of schools that would not get in over some CSL North schools that get in. Vernon Hills made the playoffs, they lost to Lakes 49-6. Glenbrook North did not make the playoffs they beat Lakes. Why? Vernon Hills is in the...
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    The Playoff Expansion Bylaw PASSED!

    2 out of 384 is .5%. Just so you know. I think there are way more positives than the .5% of teams that got in through forfeit (which is ridiculous, I quite agree). Yes, of course this is being made with adults in mind. If youth sports decisions were being made with kids best interest, it would...
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    The Playoff Expansion Bylaw PASSED!

    I'll say it again, this isn't happening. They didn't change the commitment of the season. In fact, a player on a team that doesn't qualify (0-9 to 2-7 w/o enough points) will have an EXTRA week to prepare for their season. Next year the winter season tryouts begin on November 9th. This is the...
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    The Playoff Expansion Bylaw PASSED!

    What would justify a coach doing that? Do other sports have teams that do that in the early playoffs? Do teams opt of week 9 when they are 2-6? This is a weird thing that I hope coaches would not do.
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    The Playoff Expansion Bylaw PASSED!

    But 4-5 teams already make the playoffs. And have the last few years. So I guess some are good enough? And isn't 5 wins an arbitrary demarcation? I know society in general is going to default to nice round numbers (like .500 winning percentage) to make decisions, but that doesn't mean those...
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    The Playoff Expansion Bylaw PASSED!

    What happens? Nothing. The CCL went 5-0 this year in the playoff brackets they entered. So if a 3-6 CCL won the championship, that wouldn't be any different than this year. It certainly wouldn't be "rewarding mediocrity" if a team who went 3-6 won the state championship. Are you insinuating...
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